VIETNAM TODAY

The United Nations' Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) jointly held a seminar in Hanoi on October 9 to discuss child-related issues in the 2016-2020 period.

Many older people in HCM City are having difficulty finding land for burial plots as urban sprawl takes up more and more area of the city.

Vietnam is an idyllic model of success in agriculture and rural development that other economically troubled countries throughout the world should emulate, said officials from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.

Even though the NA Economic Committee agreed with the need to build a new airport, it also raised concerns over the amount the Long Thanh International Airport project in HCM City might add to public debt.

A new plant species, thought to exist nowhere else in the world, was discovered in Xuan Lien Nature Reserve in Thanh Hoa Province.

A mother-of-pearl inlay picture featuring Uncle Ho reading the Declaration of Independence has recently been listed in the Vietnam Book of Records as the largest inlaid portrait of President Ho.

President Truong Tan Sang received a delegation of international artists on October 8, who will perform in the Asia-Europe New Music Festival, the first of its kind in Vietnam.

The Vietnamese oil tanker Sunrise 689 was hijacked by pirates who got away with its entire load, but the 18 crew members remain safe.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has permitted northern Lao Cai province to hire foreign consultants to map out an urban planning for its Sapa tourist site.

Two Americans and a German won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for laying the foundations of an ultra-powerful microscope that allows the study of tissue at the molecular level.

Thousands of Chinese people are working without permits at Formosa Company in Vung Ang Industrial Park, one report showed.

One Malaysian woman was confirmed dead and two other unknown people were injured in a fire at Budget Saigon Hostel in HCM City’s District 1 on October 8.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade is gathering ideas for a draft regulation that would set stricter requirements for beer traders in Vietnam, including a maximum temperature at places that sell beer.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is to pay working visits to Japan and Iran from October 8-15 at the invitation of the Japanese and Iranian governments.

People in Vietnam and in many other countries will be able to watch a total lunar eclipse on October 8, according to the Vietnam Astronomy and Cosmology Association (VACA).

South Korean police are searching for seven athletes and a reporter who went missing after the Asian Games closed on Saturday in the port city of Incheon.

The International Maritime Bureau now suspects piracy in the case of a Vietnamese oil tanker carrying 18 sailors that has been missing since October 2.

Vietnam will participate in the International Futsal Grand Prix to be held in the city of Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, from November 11 to 16.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has allowed the Ministry of Health to proactively use its standby fund created for countering epidemics in 2014 for preventive measures against Ebola epidemic, which has caused over 3,400 deaths in West Africa so far.